Two Point Hospital

We’re delighted to say that today we are launching two brand new addons for Two Point Hospital – the Close Encounters DLC and the Retro Items Pack!

Close Encounters is our most out-of-this-world DLC yet, featuring a whole new area of Two Point County in the dusty surrounds of Goldpan.

Meanwhile, the Retro Items Pack introduces 27 great new items to your hospitals, themed around the past! Time to dust off the gramophone...

About Close Encounters

Down in the town of Goldpan, rumours persist of an out of this world encounter. A fireball, witnessed streaking above the sandy climes of Two Point County’s Eastern reaches, is chief suspect after a range of unusual illnesses have caused strife, commotion and general unrest amongst the inhabitants of this oft-forgotten town.

As an all-round medical supremo with a knack for tackling the unreal, your administration has operational access to some key locations in the area… including some areas the public really don’t need to know about. The Two Point Squabbler, the County’s finest journalistic institution, wants to know what’s going on… and you’re their ticket in.

Take in the unredacted sights of Goldpan, followed by a top security trip to the ever-so-quaint Camoflage Falls, a town that most definitely does exist!

Beyond that? Well we’re talking pure conspiracy and pure intrigue. Harrison Wolff, Two Point County’s finest radio DJ, has oft speculated of another hidden location, with late-night meandering ramblings about a place called Chasm 24. Are his fears of robots walking the corridors just baloney? Or is he truly the sanest of us all?

New Illnesses

34 new illnesses have afflicted the denizens of this area of Two Point County, with some of the most serious of all including:

Lack of HumanityFlat-PackedFrogborneScience FrictionHighly Ill-SuitedAller-Gs… and plenty more!New Items (Included for free with DLC, but separate to The Retro Items Pack)

Of course, it wouldn’t be a new area of Two Point County without a new series of delightful corridor-based accoutrements. Place the finest trappings of inter-planetary society in your hospitals and make them look truly otherworldly.

You can get 10% off the Close Encounters DLC as an Early Adopter bonus until September 5th.

It’s been almost a year since Two Point Hospital released and we’ve been blown away with our community support. So, you guessed it, we’re nowhere near done with updating it yet!

With Gamescom just around the corner, we thought now would be an opportune time to share update 1.16 with you.

We’ve got loads of exciting plans for Two Point Hospital (a very busy roadmap of great stuff, in fact!) and we can’t wait to share more with you very soon.

Make sure you stay turned to our social channels for more on that.

Until then, however, we have a cool update for you here which brings some nice tweaks to the staff menu UI. We’re also enabling text search in the items list to make it easier to find items you own, and ones you’ve downloaded from Workshop.

Right here, right now, we’re announcing a brand spanking new feature that we'll be rolling out in Two Point Hospital. This new mode will see you collaborating with your friends, and with others across the globe, to complete challenges and unlock whole new in-game rewards. It’s called... The Superbug Initiative.

This feature will be available right away if you’ve achieved One Star in Mitton University in the game. In addition, we’re adding a new feature allowing you to add your own music to the game! IKR?! Many of you have been asking for the ability to do this and - in true Two Point Studios style - we've listened. Read on for more details on that at the end of the blog.

In a rush for the lowdown on The Superbug Initiative? You can check out the trailer right here! Else, read on for more juicy details (and if you can guess which team member voices the trailer, you will earn our respect forever more).

As we mentioned, take part in The Superbug Initiative and you’ll be able to get your hands on some rad rewards, which we’ll keep updating in future as we add more challenges to the game. Here’s just one example, The Ectovat!

This high-tech piece of Bungle equipment is designed to function as a repository for the goo of the dead, technically known by all ghost-catching aficionados as “ectoplasm”. Fill the tank up, and staff can tap into it to bolster their energy reserves. Patients too can top up their health! It’s a brilliant way of making the dead do something useful for once.

Here's how one of the group projects looks in action. Here you can see a few of us working together to crack the “Learning Machine Learning” challenge. We’re each performing objectives and are working together to complete nodes, which is nudging us ever-closer to some sumptuous in-game rewards.

As mentioned earlier in the blog, we’re also adding the ability for you to add custom music to the game! You’ll be able to add your own songs and hear them mixed with the dulcet tones of our resident Two Point County DJs.

To access this feature, you simply need to click “Audio” under the Settings menu, then click “Edit” under Music List – you’ll get something that looks like this! Here you can toggle existing tracks but also add you own new ones by clicking the + button.

Enjoy, and be sure to leave us feedback on the Steam Forums and via our brand spanking new Two Point Studios Discord: https://discord.gg/VHMJfN7. We’re just starting out with this channel, so you can be a part of its future today! More updates to come on that soon.

We hope you have a great time and really enjoy this feature as much as we have enjoyed making it. GO CHANGE THE FACE OF HEALTHCARE IN TWO POINT COUNTY, SCRUBS! We believe in you!

Could have chosen any track of their last album. Chose this because of the title. As a nine year old I was transfixed by the look of the Mael Brothers. Ron with his, lets call it Charlie Chaplin moustache, staring impassively from behind his keyboards, Russel with a great head of curly hair bouncing hyperactively around in the front. Really only recognised for one tune, but they’ve consistently made great music since the early 70’s….er not that I remember.

Johnny Moped – Running Scared

Belter from The lads third album. Three albums in 40 years is hardly prolific. Mind you surprised they made them. Croydon’s proto punks have always been a bit chaotic. (boasting Captain Sensible of the Damned and Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders in previous line ups) About to play one of their biggest gigs, Johnny hadn’t turned up, fifteen minutes before they were due to go on, they found him. Queuing up to get into his own gig.

The Stranglers – Down In The Sewer

Chosen only because I saw them again for the umpteenth time recently, and this is one of my favourites live (it’s a bit prog/punk as well)

How's that for a slice of fried gold?! We're calling this epic event Two Point Hospital: Open Surgery. Not only is the game TOTALLY FREE TO PLAY from 5pm GMT today, and available at 33% off (our biggest discount yet, btw) but - and this applies to current owners of the game too - you will also be treated to a variety of items honouring our SEGA family once you've arrived in Two Point County!

You'll also be able to find items in game inspired by our friends at Creative Assembly, Sports Interactive and Amplitude! Here's what you can expect to see:

And as you can see, there's one more utterly disturbing addition to honour our friends at Valve. Good luck curing that!

To celebrate this momentously momentous occasion, we will be live streaming ALL DAY tomorrow, handing over to our pals from the above listed SEGA studios to see how their skills as Hospital Administrators fair. We can't wait. Here's our schedule for the day:

And if that wasn't exciting enough, our second DLC - Pebberley Island - will launch on Monday! Phew - what a week! We're glad to have you along for the ride, Scrubs!